Answer:
An area that has a number of separate farmsteads that are scattered throughout the surrounding countryside is called a Dispersed Settlement.
Explanation:
Dispersed settlement is one of two types of human habitat in rural areas, generally resulting from agricultural activities and geography. Habitat is qualified as dispersed when the major part of the population of a given zone lives either in hamlets or in isolated farms. On the contrary, in the other type of rural housing - concentrated (or grouped) housing - the population settles preferentially around a main town.
